ESRL/PSD Seminar Series

An Overview of Research Activities at NCEP's Hydrologic Prediction Center

Norman "Wes" Junker, NOAA/NCEP/HPC

Abstract

The overall goal of the Hydrometeorological
Prediction Center (HPC) Hydrometeorological Testbed (HMT) is to
improve operational precipitation prediction and services for
hydrologic, emergency management and other communities and for the
public with focus on both warm- and cool season precipitation in
the time ranges of six hours to one week. HPC/HMT was established
to help evaluate new methods/ technology that might be useful in
HPC operations. How HPC plans to meet these objectives will be
briefly discussed. Recent HPC/HMT initiatives will be presented;
these primarily have been concentrated in three different areas:
1) investigating how normalized anomalies of various variables
might be used to help identify possible rare meteorological events
including extreme rainfall, 2) working with Jeff Whitaker and Tom
Hamill to get their analog technique for PQPF running on the NCEP
computers, 3) developing a web-based heavy rainfall forecasting
training manual. A summary of this work will be offered.

DSRC Multipurpose Room (GC402)Thursday, 27 September 20072:00 pm

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